The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-16
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

OlSdppSSTdnCG OF Ii lOullg OuIut0IlLS
"A Schley County Boy Gets the Best
of a Dentist.
GEORGIA.
A movement Is OH foot &c o-genize new
brass band in Americas,
There is negro in Athens who has over
So 900 in cash saved UP.
Mr.. Henry Camp has been elected chief of
the Gainesville fire department.
The contract will be- let in few days to
build the Gainesville cotton factory.
The question of building fine brick mar
ket house is being agitated in Athens.
Goodwin Lee, of Athens, has a cat and
squirrel that eat together in peace and har-
mony.
The Gainesville Sun will be turned into a
Knight of Labor paper, to be called the
Wage Worker
The spring term of the I,owndes Superior
Court convencs to-day. Judge Hansell will
preside rs usual.
j. F. Law, Ordinary of Hall county, has
been stricken with paralysis, and is in a
precarious condition.
Two large stores, one of which will be
two stories high, are to he erected in Ala
paha as soon as the material can be placed
on the ground,
charged from the roadway train for quarrel
ing last Friday That night they decided to
fight it out and one plunged his knife into
the side of the other, killing him instantly.
The gin house of Col j. H. Lowe, in
Stewart county, was struck by lightning
last Wednesday night The building caught
on fire and was entirely destroyed. A lot of
cotton seed and two gins were also con-
sumed.
No decision has as yet been reached as to
the location Of the Rome and Dalton rail
as almost certain, however, that it will be
placed at the junction of the old grade of
the Memphis Branch road and the Rome
and Decatur road
C. T. Guerney and George Bowen, two
young bicyclists of New York, will leave
Saratoga on June l on their machines, and
viii reach Columbus about July |. It is
distance of 200 mules, and it is calculated
that the trip will be made in thirty days.
The young men propose to travel about
forty miles per day.
H. D. Smith, of Sumner, while on re-
cent visit to Dooly, said he certainly wit
messed something that might be termed
strictly home economy, viz: Three indus
trlous women on one farm blowing three in
dustrious oxen, and not a vestige of man to
be seen about the place, and it might be added
that they were patent plows, run without
men or horses.
There have been entered on the docket of
Polk county Superior Court 513 cases dur
ing the years 1884, 1885 and 1886, of which
35S were civil cases and 155 were criminal
The cases were disposed of at the rate of SO
per term, leaving on Jan. l, 1887, on the
docket undisposed of 1893 cases, of which 81
are criminal and 141 are civil. The crimi-
nal business has decreased at least rs per
cent since prohibition went into effect.
At Americas a gentleman approached
George w. Council recently saying: "See
here, / have got $500 or $500, and can get
6 per cent. interest by depositing it in the
bank, but if you'll give me your plain note
for the amount, without interest twelve
months from date, TIL let you have it for
me-" Mr.. Council having no need of the
money so stated, but, so great was the con
fdence IN him he was compelled to take it.
There has been shipped from Fort Valley
up to the present time about %, 900 quarts
of Strawberries. These berries were sold al
an average of 15c. per quart, which would
bring to the shippers $500. There
has been sold at the trains and in the
local market about s. 900 quarts, at an aver
age Of zoe. per quart, which would bring tc
the raisers of this delicious berry $1,000
making in all about 81, ESQ for the crop VI
Saturday morning at II o'clock party
of negro men, John Henry Young, Frank
Kelley and Bill Wilson, were fishing on the
river bank near the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta bridge, when they saw an in
FAINT floating down the river. They fished il
out and Policeman BROKER was notified anC
also Coroner Piquet. A physician pro
nounced it white child, and it was pro
tected by the officer until the inquest. Nc
.alts 10 +c 81
A severe hail storm visited Quitman OF
Sunday afternoon last, and considerable
damage was done to the young crops. S
NJ. Young, living about seven miles nortl
of Quitman, states that he has been badly
injured and others are more or less affected
At Joe Griffins, three miles southwest o
Quitman, the hail lay on the ground al
night. Mr.. Atkinson and several other
northeast of Quitman have suffered severely
Many watermelon crops will be badly Sc
back.
Joseph n. Page, adjuster OF claims for tn
United States Mutual Accidental Associa
ton, New York. was in Rome Friday III
came for the purpose of looking into tn
case of A. D., Clnard, who held policy o
5000 ia his company. After he had inyes
tigated the matter ne stated einphatcall,
that his company would not pay out on
cent on the death of Mr.. Clinard, as all evi
itblilO~N W u ohlNltits anu lilS punt
does not cover this. Aside from this polio
Mr.. Clinard carried SO, 900 insurance on hi
life
On May a gentleman while travelin
across the mountains, in Polk county, nea
the Alabama line, came upon q real liv
bear, who seemed TO be in his native regions
Negroes in the locality have frequently re
ported seeing his track, and one hunte
tracked him last winter for a considerable
distance in the snow, but fearing either til
ridicule of the unbelieving OF wishing to re
serve the knowledge for future use, he KEEP
the secret of bruin as his neighbor Blu
this time his bearship stallSed the highwa
rs though he was monarch Of the forest
A young man living in Schley county
made contract with q dentist over there
TO I'LL all his hollow teeth for SIS, havin
plugged "A lot of them with cotton. A Ola,
or two after making contract he appears
at the dentists office, with the cotton all ex
tracted and the cavities open TO view. TIL
dentist set to work, and after using all q
his material, he had finished the job. II
looked carefully at the young man, saying
THE next time you want your stomach
filed please go the hotel.n The chap ha,
thirty-two filings which, at regular price
should have been over $50,
In January last young and intelligen
white man, who had money in one OF tn
banks of Americas, and who was known I,
have money enough for immediate wants
liyinp remote from Ameiicuy disapDaarpt